Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-26
BOND INTERPRETERS.
he GRANTS MR.. RoYALL AN0THKR
TEMPORARY RgsrRArHING ORDER.
Loudoun County officers Rnjoiued from
Prosecuting Persons Who rendered
Coupons for Licenses.

pOraTl ItstidlulIiR OIuti, WHICH,, III VI
feet, renders imperative the act OF the
recent extra session of the General AS
scmbly, commonly known as the " cou-
pon.crusher."
At the last term of the County Court
Of Ioudoun county held this month
John r. Hurst, John Il. Smith, Will
liam i. Pancoast, Daniel Gregg, Al
bert Gregg, and Summerfield Bolyn,
who had rendered coupons (Which were
refuscd) for their license-taxes, were
indicted by the grand jury for doing
business without license.
On Thursday last Mr.. William j..
Royal carried TO Baltimore and pre-
sented TO Judge Bond a bill in equity
asking for an injunction or temporary
restraining order enjoining the officers
of this county from prosecuting the
persons named under the indictments
found against them.
THE BILL.
The bill is fled by Mr. Royal as
solicitor for J. p. Cooper, Esq, who
sets out that he sold coupons to these
parties and gave to each one a guaran-
tee to save him against loss; that when
they are tried on the indictments they
Will not be able to produce the bonds
from which the coupons were cut, and
therefore they will certainly be con-
victed. The six persons are liable to
be fined, under the State law, more
than $1,000. This law makes no pro-
vision for suspending execution of the
sentence, unless at the discretion Of the
Judge trying the case therefore, says
Mr.. Royal. more than $1,000 may
thus lie oItOrted from these persons,
which Nj. Cooper will have to make
good.
The bill further, after defining the
business of each person indicted, AYERS
That each OF said persons bought SAID
coupons from your orator for the pur-
pose Of paying his icense-tax to the
State of Virginia for the year com
mcncing May l, 1887, with the same ;
that each one rendered to the proper
State officer said coupons so purchased
from your orator to the exact amount
due by BIN in payment of his license
tex for said year, which were refused
because acts Of the Legislature of Vir-
ginia forbade her officers to receive
tLm; that said persons at the time of
said tender demanded of the proper
officers licenses for their said basl-
ncsses, which were refused that there
after they proceeded with their said
businesses without licenses, but they
did not do 50 before said tender and
refusal that thereafter, at the August
tenn, 1857, Of the County Court OF
Loudoun county, the grand jury found
an indictment against each of the per
sons named for conducting his bust
ness without a license, and the case
against each was continued to the Sep
tember term Of said court, when it is
the intention of the officers Of said
court to try each Of them upon the ia
dictment against him. Your orator
flies herewith Il certified copy OF the IN
dictmcnt against each.
That said indictments found against
said persons are part of the general
scheme Of the officers of the State OF
Nireinia to destroy said coupons and
make them valucloss for the purpose of
paving taxes; and the said indictments
we've found, and said persons will be
prosecuted upon them to yex, oppress,
and haTass them, and thus deter them
and others from attempting to pay
taxes with said coupons in the fu-
ture that the officers of SAID
State intend to secure conyic-
ton Of and fine against each one
of said persons Notwithstanding sAld
tender of coupons, and notwlthstand-
ing the fact that 10 one of them Is la
bic to conviction ard fine that the
plan for arriving at this end Is, That
when the person indicted pleads that he
had rendered the States coupons he
shall lie required to produce the bonds
from which they had been cut, aud
shall not he allowed to prove that the
courons rendered by him were actually
tle States coupons unless he docs pro-
duce said bonds that neither youl
orator nor any Of those for whom he
acted. nor the persons indicted, own OF
control the bonds from which the cOu-
mons rendered were cut. and none OF
them have any means Of ascertnn'ug
where the Same are that the Supre mt
Court of Appeals of the State OF Nlr
qjuia has decided that both OF said
acts heretofore referred to--one OF
January DIST and the other of Jannary
26. 1SSf-are valid and constitutional
acts. and the County Court OF Loudour
countv will therefore be compelled tC
hold the same thing that therefore
when the indicted persons attempt tC
prove that they had rendered coupons
for their license.t taxes they will be call
cd upon to produce the bonds from
which they came and being unable tC
do so they will be unable to prove the
tender, and will certainly be convicted
and ined that the persons nance
have called upon your orator to MAKE
Good his guarantee by appearing fol
them and defending the prosecution
against them ; that by reason OF sait
acts Of Assembly your orator Is unabl,
10 defend said prosecutions, although
the coupons sold by him and tenderet
by said persons indicted are the genuine
courons Of the Stat. of Virginia over
due. and, by her contract, receivable
in payment of all taxes due Il
her that if said prosecutions arr
q thAratnFA a la
certainty that the defendants will b'
convicted and fined more than S2,OJO
If the iuries so elect. which, 10y reason
OF his guarantee contract, your orato
will have to pay, and therefore tn
matter in dispute in this cause exceed
81. 600 exclusive of interest and costs
| that the acts of the Virginia Leglsla
ture which require said prosecutions t.
be instituted and conducted agalns
said persons, Notwithstanding sal
tender of coupons, are repugnant I
the Constitution Of tho United States
and therefore said County Court o
Loudoun is without jurisdiction OF SAT-
proceedings. Your orator would fur
| tber show that James B. McCabe 18th
| Commonwealth's attorney of Loudoul
county, State of Virginia; that Edga
| Littleton is clerk of the County Cour
of said county, and Harrison IL. Rus
sell is the sheriff Of said county, ana a
of them are citizens of the State
| Virginia, aud all of them intend to CO
operate in compelling the person
| named, who have been indicted a
| aforesaid. TO submit to t:ial upo
said indictments, TO answer which the
have been summoned at the term @
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